Approach &
Services
Motive was established to enable a sense of belonging in office environments and beyond, through narrative driven artwork, installations and design.
How we work together
Our process transforms brand identity into an immersive workplace experience. You deserve to feel at home wherever you work.
Think of it as dressing your space with your personality. With a strong background in design and build, we focus on space branding. While we don’t offer fit-out services, speed and value come as standard.
Our process transforms brand identity into an immersive workplace experience. You deserve to feel at home wherever you work.
Think of it as dressing your space with your personality. With a strong background in design and build, we focus on space branding. While we don’t offer fit-out services, speed and value come as standard.
Research
We dive deep into what makes you, you—your origins, goals, people, quirks, and culture.We mine for insights both lateral and literal, ensuring ideas align with your workspace. We’ll research your reputation and speak with key voices to truly understand you.
Research
We dive deep into what makes you, you—your origins, goals, people, quirks, and culture.We mine for insights both lateral and literal, ensuring ideas align with your workspace. We’ll research your reputation and speak with key voices to truly understand you.
Research
We dive deep into what makes you, you—your origins, goals, people, quirks, and culture.We mine for insights both lateral and literal, ensuring ideas align with your workspace. We’ll research your reputation and speak with key voices to truly understand you.
Collaborate
Collaboration is key. Every idea is workshopped together with you, resulting in a product that’s undeniably authentic. We also work closely with a vast stable of creatives, artists and production specialists to explore entirely new concepts and aesthetics.
Collaborate
Collaboration is key. Every idea is workshopped together with you, resulting in a product that’s undeniably authentic. We also work closely with a vast stable of creatives, artists and production specialists to explore entirely new concepts and aesthetics.
Collaborate
Collaboration is key. Every idea is workshopped together with you, resulting in a product that’s undeniably authentic. We also work closely with a vast stable of creatives, artists and production specialists to explore entirely new concepts and aesthetics.
Design
Ideas are then developed and visualised within your space, resulting in a signed off design, programme and cost. Every aspect of what we create is developed to sit harmoniously within the space’s architecture and scheme. We pride ourselves on unforgettable, highly conceptual solutions that immerse users with a sense of belonging.
Design
Ideas are then developed and visualised within your space, resulting in a signed off design, programme and cost. Every aspect of what we create is developed to sit harmoniously within the space’s architecture and scheme. We pride ourselves on unforgettable, highly conceptual solutions that immerse users with a sense of belonging.
Design
Ideas are then developed and visualised within your space, resulting in a signed off design, programme and cost. Every aspect of what we create is developed to sit harmoniously within the space’s architecture and scheme. We pride ourselves on unforgettable, highly conceptual solutions that immerse users with a sense of belonging.
Install
Motive then implement and deliver the agreed design with our in-house project management team and contracted collaborators. We see through every chosen idea until they’re in place ready to be enjoyed.
Install
Motive then implement and deliver the agreed design with our in-house project management team and contracted collaborators. We see through every chosen idea until they’re in place ready to be enjoyed.
Install
Motive then implement and deliver the agreed design with our in-house project management team and contracted collaborators. We see through every chosen idea until they’re in place ready to be enjoyed.
What we do
Bespoke brand art & installations
From the heart your company's culture and its inside jokes, to the brand purpose and mission, there are stories waiting to be made physical. We shape those stories into bespoke brand installations - crafted not to fill space, but to become the space as living symbols of your identity.
Bespoke brand art & installations
From the heart your company's culture and its inside jokes, to the brand purpose and mission, there are stories waiting to be made physical. We shape those stories into bespoke brand installations - crafted not to fill space, but to become the space as living symbols of your identity.
Art curation & decoration
We don't just decorate - we curate. Drawing from a wide circle of local artists, we select and place artwork, objects and visual details that resonate with a brand's voice and spirit. Each piece is chosen with intention, ensuring the workspace doesn't just hold art, but breathes with it.
Art curation & decoration
We don't just decorate - we curate. Drawing from a wide circle of local artists, we select and place artwork, objects and visual details that resonate with a brand's voice and spirit. Each piece is chosen with intention, ensuring the workspace doesn't just hold art, but breathes with it.
Murals
Office walls don't have to stand silent. Murals transform them into canvases of story, movement, and meaning. They leave your mark. Whether hand-painted, graphic, or textured, these large-scale pieces weave the brand's journey and vision directly onto the surfaces that surround its people.
Murals
Office walls don't have to stand silent. Murals transform them into canvases of story, movement, and meaning. They leave your mark. Whether hand-painted, graphic, or textured, these large-scale pieces weave the brand's journey and vision directly onto the surfaces that surround its people.
Office neon & signage
Sometimes a brand's presence demands light - literal, electric, unapologetic. We design neon and signage installations that balance utility and expression, turning logos, words, and symbols into glowing focal points that claim their place within a workspace, equal parts message and art.
Office neon & signage
Sometimes a brand's presence demands light - literal, electric, unapologetic. We design neon and signage installations that balance utility and expression, turning logos, words, and symbols into glowing focal points that claim their place within a workspace, equal parts message and art.
Workplace brand integration strategy
True branding isn't scattered; it's woven. We develop strategies that ensure every space - whether one office or a global network - feels aligned, intentional, and unmistakably connected to the brand at its core. This is about consistency, yes - but more than that, it's about continuity of feeling.
Workplace brand integration strategy
True branding isn't scattered; it's woven. We develop strategies that ensure every space - whether one office or a global network - feels aligned, intentional, and unmistakably connected to the brand at its core. This is about consistency, yes - but more than that, it's about continuity of feeling.
Spatial brand activation
Some moments call for permanence; others, for a burst of presence. We create immersive, campaign-led experiences - pop-ups, events, temporary installations - that inject a brand's energy into a space, transforming it for a moment in time.
Spatial brand activation
Some moments call for permanence; others, for a burst of presence. We create immersive, campaign-led experiences - pop-ups, events, temporary installations - that inject a brand's energy into a space, transforming it for a moment in time.
FAQs
Some answers. Not all of them.
(The good stuff comes in conversation)
Top Questions
What is office branding?
Office branding is the art of making a brand tangible within the workspace. It goes beyond surface decoration- transforming mission, story, and values into personality. Through art, material, and curated design, a brand becomes something people can walk through, touch, and feel.
What is office branding?
Office branding is the art of making a brand tangible within the workspace. It goes beyond surface decoration- transforming mission, story, and values into personality. Through art, material, and curated design, a brand becomes something people can walk through, touch, and feel.
Why does office branding matter?
Because space is never just a backdrop; it’s part of culture. Workspace branding shapes how a company is experienced each day - by employees, visitors, and clients alike. A well-crafted environment can inspire, connect, and motivate, turning passive walls into active storytellers.
Why does office branding matter?
Because space is never just a backdrop; it’s part of culture. Workspace branding shapes how a company is experienced each day - by employees, visitors, and clients alike. A well-crafted environment can inspire, connect, and motivate, turning passive walls into active storytellers.
What are some examples of workspace brand integration?
Workspace brand integration takes many forms and can be as subtle or spectacular as ambition allows. It might appear as a bold, hand-painted mural charting a company’s journey; a sculptural installation in reception; a glowing neon mantra on a feature wall; or refined material choices and finishes that quietly echo a brand’s values.
What are some examples of workspace brand integration?
Workspace brand integration takes many forms and can be as subtle or spectacular as ambition allows. It might appear as a bold, hand-painted mural charting a company’s journey; a sculptural installation in reception; a glowing neon mantra on a feature wall; or refined material choices and finishes that quietly echo a brand’s values.
How is workplace branding different from interior design or fit-outs?
Interior design and fit-outs focus on how a space functions - the layout, the furniture, the materials. Workplace branding focuses on what a space means - how it tells a story, how it feels, how it connects emotionally. It layers in narrative, identity, and presence through brand artwork, installations, and experiential design.
How is workplace branding different from interior design or fit-outs?
Interior design and fit-outs focus on how a space functions - the layout, the furniture, the materials. Workplace branding focuses on what a space means - how it tells a story, how it feels, how it connects emotionally. It layers in narrative, identity, and presence through brand artwork, installations, and experiential design.
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